With chapters devoted to Civil War Hospitals, Nurses, Ambulance Corps and Dental Care, this reference book is full of historical photographs and documentation of battlefield equipment used by doctors during the Civil War era. This book also contains historical photos of many of the actual doctors, nurses and patients.

Volume III begins with the men of healing and continues with their education, uniforms and personal equipment, the removal of the wounded, the wounded themselves, the Sanitary Commission, the Christian Commission, medical artifacts in relic condition and ends with a chapter titled “Buyers Beware."